Most of the Villagers are reasonably altruistic, and the Village never lacks in people who are willing to help another Villager overcome some disability. They have made themselves new homes in Village. Many of the people in Village are like Seer: cast out from their old communities and sometimes seriously injured.
Matty is hoping for his true name to be "Messenger," since he sends messages for Leader. Matty lives with Seer, an "unseeing" man who the people of the Village rescued years before. Lowry introduced Matty in Gathering Blue he is an energetic and impatient individual who is undergoing an awkward transition into adulthood as the story begins. This novel focuses upon a boy named Matty, who serves as message-bearer through the ominous Forest that surrounds the community. Set in an isolated community known simply as Village, where people come to escape their previous lives. Characters from the two earlier books reappear in Messenger, linking the novels more strongly. This novel is to take place about eight years after the events of The Giver, and about six years after the events of Gathering Blue. It forms the third installment of The Giver quartet begun by her 1993 Newbery Medal-winning novel The Giver. It is a 2004 novel by children's author Lois Lowry. (Sept.Messenger is the third book in the Giver quartet. And readers may well predict where several important plot threads are headed (e.g., the role of Kira's Guardian, Jamison her father's disappearance), while larger issues, such as the society's downfall, are left to readers' imaginations. But the narrative hammers at the theme of the imprisoned artist. The edifice and other settings, such as the Fen-the village ghetto-and the small plot where Annabella (an elder weaver who mentors Kira after her mother's death) lives are especially well drawn, and the characterizations of Kira and the other artists who cohabit the stone residence are the novel's greatest strength. She moves to the Council Edifice, a gothic-style structure, one of the few to survive the Ruin. Instead, the society's Council of Guardians installs her as caretaker of the Singer's robe, a precious ceremonial garment depicting the history of the world and used at the annual Gathering. Kira, a crippled young weaver, has been raised and taught her craft by her mother, after her father was allegedly killed by ""beasts."" When her mother dies, Kira fears that she will be cast out of the village. Having suffered numerous unnamed disasters (aka, the Ruin), civilization has regressed to a primitive, technology-free state an opening author's note describes a society in which ""disorder, savagery, and self-interest"" rule.
After conjuring the pitfalls of a technologically advanced society in The Giver, Lowry looks toward a different type of future to create this dark, prophetic tale with a strong medieval flavor.
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